The BEST 100 BOOKS of the 21st CENTURY according to THE GUARDIAN | A super long video! Oops!

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Listed in alphabetical order according to the author's last name.
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich (2013), trans. by Bela Shayevich (2016)
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson (2013)
Experience, Martin Amis (2000)
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood (2003)
Darkmans, Nicola Barker (2007)
The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker (2018)
Levels of Life, Julian Barnes (2013)
Days Without End, Sebastian Barry (2016)
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
Noughts & Crosses, Malorie Blackman (2001)
The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson (2002)
True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey (2000)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (2002)
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
Harvest, Jim Crace (2013)
Outline, Rachel Cusk (2014)
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins (2006)
Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick (2009)
The Hare with Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal (2010)
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
Rapture, Carol Ann Duffy (2005)
The Siege, Helen Dunmore (2001)
Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan (2004)
A Visit from The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (2011)
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
The Green Road, Anne Enright (2015)
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron (2006)
Visitation, Jenny Erpenbeck (2008), trans. by Susan Bernofsky (2010)
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2011), trans. by Ann Goldstein (2012)
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (2012)
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
Coraline, Neil Gaiman (2002)
This House of Grief, Helen Garner (2014)
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night‑Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (2011), trans. by Harari with John Purcell and Haim Watzman (2014)
Light, M John Harrison (2002)
Human Chain, Seamus Heaney (2010)
Notes on a Scandal, Zoë Heller (2003)
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (2009), trans. by Lisa Dillman (2015)
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin (2015)
Postwar, Tony Judt (2005)
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (2011)
On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein (2007)
A Death in the Family, Karl Ove Knausgaard (2009), trans. by Don Bartlett (2012)
The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2005), trans. by Steven T Murray (2008)
The Constant Gardener, John le Carré (2001)
Moneyball, Michael Lewis (2010)
Small Island, Andrea Levy (2004)
The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy (2018)
Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood (2017)
Tell Me How It Ends, Valeria Luiselli (2016), trans. by Luiselli with Lizzie Davis (2017)
Broken Glass, Alain Mabanckou (2005), trans. by Helen Stevenson (2009)
Underland, Robert Macfarlane (2019)
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (2009)
The Infatuations, Javier Marías (2011), trans. by Margaret Jull Costa (2013)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006)
Atonement, Ian McEwan (2001)
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro (2001)
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (2015)
Dart, Alice Oswald (2002)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty (2013), trans. by Arthur Goldhammer (2014)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan (2006)
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett (2002)
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (2000)
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine (2014)
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth (2004)
Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli (2014)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling (2000)
Bad Blood, Lorna Sage (2000)
Tenth of December, George Saunders (2013)
Austerlitz, WG Sebald (2001), trans. by Anthea Bell (2001)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot (2010)
Autumn, Ali Smith (2016)
White Teeth, Zadie Smith (2000)
The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon (2001)
Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit (2004)
Mother’s Milk, Edward St Aubyn (2006)
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2000-2003), trans. by Mattias Ripa (2003-2004)
Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín (2009)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (2009), trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (2018)
Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis (2017)
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware (2000)
The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2009)
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (2002)
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (2016)
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson (2011)
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff (2019)

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